Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. ✨ Vir…

Virginia Woolf
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.819, Delphi Classics
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